Duane Nykamp, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Mathematics
E-MAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: http://www.math.umn.edu/~nykamp/
Research Interests:
Mathematical Neuroscience
- Developing methods to characterize biological neural networks through analysis of single and multiple neuron recordings
- Modeling the neural networks of the primary visual cortex
- Developing efficient methods for neural network simulation
Selected Publications:
(For a comprehensive list of recent publications, refer to PubMed, a service provided by the National Library of Medicine.)
- Kim CM, Nykamp DQ. The influence of depolarization block on seizure-like activity in networks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons. J Comput Neurosci. 2017;43(1):65-79.
- Nykamp DQ, Friedman D, Shaker S, Shinn M, Vella M, Compte A, Roxin A. Mean-field equations for neuronal networks with arbitrary degree distributions. Phys Rev E. 2017 Apr;95(4-1):042323.
- Wimmer K, Nykamp DQ, Constantinidis C, Compte A. Bump attractor dynamics in prefrontal cortex explains behavioral precision in spatial working memory. Nat Neurosci. 2014;17(3):431-9.
